File:Sprinting stars in the Milky Way ESA400471.jpg
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English: The positions and reconstructed orbits of 20 high-velocity stars, represented on top of an artistic view of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. These stars were identified using data from thesecond release of ESA’s Gaia mission.
The seven stars shown in red are sprinting away from the Galaxy and could be travelling fast enough to eventually escape its gravity. Surprisingly, the study revealed also thirteen stars, shown in orange, that are racing towards the Milky Way: these could be stars from another galaxy, zooming right through our own. More information |
| Date | |
| Source | http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/10/Sprinting_stars_in_the_Milky_Way |
| Author | European Space Agency |
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
ESA (artist’s impression and composition); Marchetti et al 2018 (star positions and trajectories); NASA/ESA/Hubble (background galaxies),CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO |
| Title | Sprinting stars in the Milky Way |
| Mission | Gaia |
| Activity | Space Science |
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ESA (artist’s impression and composition); Marchetti et al 2018 (star positions and trajectories); NASA/ESA/Hubble (background galaxies)
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| current | 20:05, 19 October 2018 | | 5,906 × 3,322 (10.44 MB) | wikimediacommons>Fæ | European Space Agency, Id 400471, http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/10/Sprinting_stars_in_the_Milky_Way, User:Fæ/Project_list/ESA |
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